Where --Â Not When --Â Should You Have a Baby?

By SARANNA THORNTON

I am in the unusual position of being a tenured female economics
professor with four children. I had my first baby three years after
completing my Ph.D., the next a few years later, the third during
the year of my tenure decision, and the fourth two years after
that. And between the births of my second and third children I
radically changed my research focus from monetary economics to
pregnancy discrimination.

I was changing jobs, and the college where I was interviewing
didn't have a